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This page is for announcing things in the news which the gemeral public usually does not see as these things do not often make the front pages like the ideas which promote bio psych more often do.
It will also offer some information about what bio psych is up to and why all of us should be paying attention to this for these things are also about the future of the 'yet to be' psychiatrized people.
I do not intend to keep this news updated though but will occasionally post one or two articles only on the same topic or case. This will give those interested in the outcomes some information to 'Google' or "Bing" if you would like to learn more.
There are many sites now keeping up with these things so they should be quite easy to find.
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Formerly, whenreligion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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excerpts from:
Click on title for complete article in the WSJ
A manual's draft reflects how diagnoses have grown foggier, drugs more ineffective
By EDWARD SHORTER
...The latest draft of the DSM fixes none of the problems with the previous DSM series, and even creates some new ones.
A new problem is the extension of "schizophrenia" to a larger population, with "psychosis risk syndrome." Even if you aren't floridly psychotic with hallucinations and delusions, eccentric behavior can nonetheless awaken the suspicion that you might someday become psychotic. Let's say you have "disorganized speech." This would apply to about half of my students. Pour on the Seroquel for "psychosis risk syndrome"!
DSM-V accelerates the trend of making variants on the spectrum of everyday behavior into diseases: turning grief into depression, apprehension into anxiety, and boyishness into hyperactivity....
Where is psychiatry headed? What the discipline badly needs is close attention to patients and their individual symptoms, in order to carve out the real diseases from the vast pool of symptoms that DSM keeps reshuffling into different "disorders." This kind of careful attention to what patients actually have is called "psychopathology," and its absence distinguishes American psychiatry from the European tradition. With DSM-V, American psychiatry is headed in exactly the opposite direction: defining ever-widening circles of the population as mentally ill with vague and undifferentiated diagnoses and treating them with powerful drugs.
—Edward Shorter is professor of the history of medicine and psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto. His latest book, written with Max Fink, "Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia," is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
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Psychiatry Itself Needs to be Abolished
It is out of completely out of control.
Even many psychiatrists, previously gung-ho enthusiasts think so now. Those of you in the profession currently, who REALLY want to help change the world for the better, might decide whether you are more suited to the physical or the metaphysical side of reality and then choose psychology/psychotherapy or neurology as a personal direction of work. But the DSM has to go.
A museum focused on relics of the mental illness Dark Ages might be the place to store copies of the DSM so that future generations can marvel at the blindness and magical thinking of ‘bona fide’ doctors of the Invalidation, Reductionism and Power ‘Over’ period of ‘medicine.’
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| "Unlikely" that key genes cause schizophrenia |
02/13/2010 |
| EXCLUSIVE
by Adam James
April 14, 2008
The genes most widely believed to cause schizophrenia are, in fact, unlikely to play a role in the condition, according to the most comprehensive genetic study of its kind.
The results published in a paper in this month’s American Journal of Psychiatry will ... More> |
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| Are We Really Coming Up Blank? |
02/13/2010 |
| For complete article click on this link
Steven P. Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D.
The most comprehensive genetic association study of genes previously reported to contribute to the susceptibility to schizophrenia by Gejman et al. is published in this issue of the Journal. The study by Sanders et al. (1) set out to ... More> |
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| PERSPECTIVE |
01/31/2010 |
| Fattened by pills
One of the biggest causes of obesity is seldom discussed.
By Paula J. Caplan | January 24, 2010
As Americans struggle to keep New Year’s weight-loss resolutions, experts’ alarms about obesity ring in our heads. We obsess about portion control, flock to the gym, and can’t get enough of ... More> |
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| Just a Good Night's Sleep |
01/31/2010 |
| Just a Good Night’s Sleep
This below is one drug just being given to someone I know for ‘seizures’ which ‘only happen when the patient is asleep.”
The dose is now at 400mg HS doubled from 200mg. (UPdate Feb 20th, 2010 see footnote 3 )
A local psychiatrist, the one who labelled me in eleven cost effective ... More> |
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| Rebecca Riley |
01/31/2010 |
| O.K., here we go. I really have to say this, so bear with me.
About 20 years ago, our Congress eliminated our public welfare system that had served our indigent population for many decades. Certainly there were
abuses in that system. No system of this sort can be perfect.
In it's wake is a hideous mess, ... More> |
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BIAS IN PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
Website Highlights Concern About Upcoming DSM-V
February 6, 2010 -
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - BIAS IN PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
Website Highlights Concern About Upcoming DSM-V
February 6, 2010 - Who makes the powerful decisions
about what defines emotional normalcy or dysfunction?
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association is set to publish the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V). The DSM, often called the therapist's Bible, is used to diagnose mental disorders, but for a quarter of a century, the Association for Women in Psychology has raised questions about the science, ethics and implications of psychiatric diagnoses, and its Committee on Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis has just created a website to present its concerns about the upcoming DSM edition.
Concerns about the new edition of the DSM-V include the secrecy surrounding its development, proposals to add questionable new diagnostic categories of mental disorder – such as "obesity" and "Parental Alienation Syndrome," the failure to remove existing categories that cause harm and do not benefit patients, the failure to take into account the many kinds of harm that result from the use of psychiatric diagnoses, and the notion that emotional suffering comes primarily from within the individual rather than being heavily influenced by social or systemic
factors.
Paula J. Caplan, a psychologist and researcher at Harvard University, chairs the committee of academics, researchers and clinicians that has created the materials for the website, which is intended to provide information to mental health professionals, journalists and other interested individuals about biases and other
problems in psychiatric diagnosis. The site includes critiques of specific diagnostic categories and ways that more general forms of bias, such as classism and
racism, pervade the creation and use of psychiatric diagnostic categories. As new information about plans for DSM-V emerges, new material will be added.
The site also includes related references, links, and announcements
about conferences and publications and is at:
The Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) is a scientific and educational professional organization of psychologists and other social scientists committed to
encouraging feminist psychological research, theory and activism. ###
Contact:
Audrey Ervin, Ph.D.
Spokesperson,
Association for Women in Psychology
http://awpsych. org/
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Really LISTEN to This
I want you to really listen to this and understand that all of this is being used for psychiatric control and it isn’t the big book of INSANITY. So pay attention as all of this CRAP can be used by psychiatry to diagnose YOU. Can you HEAR this all right?
He is talking really fast by just play it over and over again until your jaw drops.
If this stuff is NOT scaring the hell out of you, it should be...
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The Other Side of Reality
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If we can drug people BEFORE They Show signs of any illness, can we also arrest and sentence people predisposed to bank robbery before they decide to rob a bank?
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